The World: We Know the Americans

IT'S the first team," said an impressed U.S. State Department official.
It was indeed a strong group that Peking announced last week as its
delegation to the United Nations. Lean in numbers, the ten-member
delegation was impressively high in rank and long on diplomatic
experience convincing evidence that the Communists regard their newly
won seat in the U.N. as a significant opportunity.

The people from the People's Republic are all dedicated revolutionaries,
but they are also well-born intellectuals, educated elitists who have
traveled widely and are no strangers to the purlieus of diplomacy. All...